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History Onion hosts The History Onion, a history show with 52 episodes published.
Today we are re-releasing our interview with Melat Kiros, a progressive candidate for Congress in Colorado’s 1st District. Originally published in October of 2025, our interview broaches topics including how to get money
Víctor Jara, sometimes referred to as the “Bob Dylan of South America,” was a Chilean folk singer who rose to prominence in the 1960s as part of the nueva canción movement. His songs were often deeply political in nature
For our 50th episode (!!), we are excited to present our January interview with Marc Cooper. Marc Cooper is the former associate professor and director of Annenberg Digital News at the USC Annenberg School for Communicat
We are excited to share our interview with Juliana DeVaan, a PhD candidate in US history at Columbia University, where she studies 20th-century cultural and intellectual history. Her work has been supported by the New Yo
We are excited today to share our interview with Ariel Dorfman, an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. Professor Dorfman served as a cultural adviser to Chilean
We are excited to be joined on today’s show by investigative reporter and writer John Dinges. John Dinges has decades of experience covering Latin America, including as a foreign correspondent in Chile, El Salvador, Guat
We are excited to be joined today by Alex Williams, the principal US economist at Common Wealth, a progressive think tank operating across the US and UK, as well as a policy fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic
Today, we are joined once again by Jack Meyer (check out our previous episode with him here: “Abundance, with Jack Meyer”). Jack is an economics masters student at Oxford, as well as an aspiring political economist and e
The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile was defined in large part by its brutally repressive nature. Its centralization of repression in the DINA (Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional) and the centrality of repressive tactics e
After a few months off, we are returning to our Modern Chile series with today’s episode. For our next episodes in this series, we will be covering the Pinochet years, defined primarily as the years between 1973 and 1990
This episode is the second installation in our series on the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Our first episode covered the very recent history of the conflict, looking at the round of violence that began in Oct
Today we are excited to release our excellent conversation with Professor Kristoffer Smemo, author of Making Republicans Liberal: Social Struggle and the Politics of Compromise. Professor Smemo is a historian of labor, p
This episode marks the first installation of a new mini-series for the podcast. The series will cover the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict, and will take as a central text guiding us through this history a book t
For today’s episode, we spoke with Michael Foley, author of Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash, for a wide-ranging discussion about Cash’s politics. We dissect Foley’s framework of a “politics of e
In this episode, we dig deep into the slop of AI discourse. We start by looking at the culture of hype that’s sprouted in Silicon Valley, then turn to the strange world that this hype has produced, and finally present a
Today we are thrilled to release our interview with Melat Kiros, a progressive candidate for Congress in Colorado’s 1st District. Kiros is running to unseat the longest-serving representative of Colorado’s current congre
Today we are joined by Jack Meyer, an economics masters student at Oxford, as well as an aspiring political economist and economic historian. His current areas of study include innovation, development and inequality. You
Today we are joined by Ross Barkan, an award-winning journalist, novelist, and essayist. Ross is the Editor-in-Chief of The Metropolitan Review, a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, and a columnist for N
We are happy to announce our first interview episode, featuring friend of show Spencer Hacker! Spencer is a social worker, an activist, and a political content creator. He is based out of Denver, Colorado, and he is maki
As soon as Allende won the 1970 presidential election, the US began plotting ways to prevent his ascension to power. With under two months before his victory would be confirmed by the Chilean Congress, the US moved quick
Melat Kiros
candidate for Congress in Colorado’s 1st District
2 appearances on this show
Marc Cooper
former associate professor and director of Annenberg Digital News at USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism · Solomon Partners
1 appearance on this show
Alex Williams
Legal Director & Company Secretary · Greenspell School of Ecological Herbcraft
1 appearance on this show
Dr. Michael Foley
author
1 appearance on this show
Ross Barkan
novelist
1 appearance on this show
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